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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work

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